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Amanda Sammann Pays Tribute to Patients with Hand-crafted "Stem to Stern" Heart
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 14, 2017
Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director of The The Better Lab, and an Assistant Professor of Surgery based at ZSFG, has contributed a work to the Hearts of San Francisco, a public art installation started by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation in 2004. Dr. Sammann's hand-crafted heart, called...
Multi-center Study Shows Benefits of Scalp Cooling in Alleviating Hair Loss in Breast Cancer Patients
UCSF Breastcare Program
March 14, 2017
UCSF News reports on the results of a new multi-center study showing that s calp cooling can mitigate one of most devastating side effects of systemic chemotherapy, hair loss, in a significant number of breast cancer patients. The results were reported on in JAMA. Hope S. Rugo, MD , was the lead author and...
Amanda Sammann Launches The Better Lab to Drive Innovation in Healthcare Delivery
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 14, 2017
Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H. , a UCSF trauma surgeon based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, recently launched The Better Lab , an innovative research program based on human-centered design in healthcare. With her co-founders, Design Director Susan Dix Lyons and Researcher Lara Chehab , The Better Lab is...
Peggy Knudson Receives 2017 Heroes & Hearts Award from San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
March 05, 2017
UCSF News reports on this year's Heroes & Hearts Award ceremony at which UCSF trauma surgeon M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS and three other recipients where honored. The Heroes & Hearts program, is celebrated "as a way to bring the community together to celebrate the essential role Zuckerberg San...
Technology Developed by Michael Harrison for Sunken Chest Repurposed as Novel Therapy for Sleep Apnea
Surgical Innovations Program
March 02, 2017
A novel device to treat patients with obstructive sleep apnea was profiled in a recent story on ABC7/KGO News Bay Area. The technology was developed by Michael R. Harrison, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Director Emeritus of the UCSF...
New Collaboration Launched to Advance Technology for Children’s Health
Department of Surgery, Surgical Innovations Program
March 02, 2017
On January 12, clinicians, engineers, scientists, and administrators from UCSF, UC Berkeley. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, and Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) convened at the Mission Bay campus for the inaugural Engineering for Children’s Health Symposium. The event, reported in UCSF...
UCSF Kidney, Liver and Lung Transplant Programs Earn Highest SRTR Score for Risk Adjusted Outcomes
UCSF Department of Surgery
February 24, 2017
Becker's Hospital Review reports that the UCSF Kidney, Liver, and Lung Transplant Programs each received the highest score "5", "Better than Expected" for transplant outcomes*, based on the most recent data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). These scores were evaluated using SRTR's new "...
Peggy Knudson to Be Honored with Heroes & Hearts Award by SFGH Foundation
UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
February 10, 2017
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation recently announced that UCSF trauma surgeon M. Margaret “Peggy” Knudson, M.D., FACS was among four recipients of the 2017 Heroes & Hearts Award who will be honored at the Foundation’s annual Heroes & Hearts luncheon on Thursday, February 16, 2017 at AT&T Park. . The award...
Pamela Derish Imparts Scientific Writing Skills to University of Chicago Surgery Residents
UCSF Department of Surgery
February 02, 2017
To support its faculty in their scientific publishing and grant writing efforts, and to provide specialized training in writing skills for its trainees, the Department of Surgery at UCSF established its Scientific Publications Office in 2004. One former trainee who now chairs the Resident Research Advisory...
Pamela Derish Instructs International HIV Researchers in Scientific Writing
UCSF Scientific Publications Office
February 02, 2017
UCSF Global Health Science's International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies Program (ITAPS) is a training program for international scientists. Its mission is to provide training and conduct research on the prevention of HIV transmission in low- and middle-income countries. Pamela Derish, M.A., Scientific...
Department of Surgery’s Scientific Writing Course Offered Winter 2017
UCSF Department of Surgery
February 02, 2017
The Department’s 8-session Scientific Writing Course, led by Pamela Derish, is intended for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and residents whose research focus is in the biological sciences and clinical/translational medicine. The course objective is to learn specific ways to marshal the details of a biomedical...
Meet Dr. Andrew Posselt, Transplant and Bariatric Surgeon
UCSF Bariatric Surgery
January 07, 2017
Andrew Posselt, MD, PhD is a transplant and bariatric surgeon and professor of surgery at UCSF. Dr. Posselt performs kidney, liver, pancreas and islet transplants. He is also among a handful surgeons in the country who also performs bariatric surgery for patients who would otherwise be transplant candidates, but...
NIH Awards Department of Surgery T32 Training Grant for Transplant Surgery
UCSF Department of Surgery
January 06, 2017
The NIH has awarded the UCSF Department of Surgery a T32 training grant , “Filling a Void of Research Training for Transplant Surgeons” (FAVOR). The grant, awarded in August 2016, provides annual funding in the amount of $156,602 for in-depth training of three general surgery residents with an interest in...
Eric Nakakura and Emily Bergsland Discuss Carcinoid Syndrome Treatment on "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind" Series
UCSF Surgical Oncology Program
January 03, 2017
Eric Nakakura, M.D., Ph.D., a UCSF gastrointestinal cancer surgeon and Emily Bergsland, M.D.. a UCSF gastrointestinal oncologist, recently discussed the treatment of carcinoid syndrome on "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind", a series hosted by Information Television Network (ITV), a PBS content affiliate. Dr. Nakakura is...
Research Fellow Alvin Wong Awarded Grant to Study Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
Pomerantz Lab
December 22, 2016
Alvin Wong, M.D., a plastic surgery research fellow in the Pomerantz Lab, was awarded a grant by the Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF) to study "skeletal muscle regeneration by human satellite cells following denervation". The award, funded by a National Endowment for Plastic Surgery Grant, was one of eleven...
Marlene Grenon, Space Medicine Trailblazer, Profiled by Society for Vascular Surgery
UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
November 18, 2016
The multifaceted rarefied career of Marlene Grenon, M.D., C.M., aspiring astronaut cum UCSF vascular surgeon, was recently profiled in the October 2106 issue of "Vascular Specialist", a publication of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) with a worldwide audience of vascular surgeons, interventional...